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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-07-07
The Russian Recruit.

The Odessa correspondent of the Lon
ing what he saw during the drilling of
some Russian recruits the other day:
The company nearest to which L was
standing was composed of youths, not
one of whom would have passed an En-
glish regimental doctor. They were
clothed in ill-fitting, filthy, second or
third hand baIrack or stock uniforms,
and with extremely few exceptions bore
the appearance of being ill-fed. l hear
they have also very bad quarters. Some
thousands of these recruits are huddled
into malOdOrous sheds. The drillmaster
was big man. He thought nothing of
stepping up to the end of the line and
dealing two or three rcsOunding blows on
the faces of eight or ten of the uniform
ed squad. At the next wore of command
the result was unsatisfactory; and the
corporal expressed his displcasure by
attacking a sickly, consumptive-looking
Jewish recruit, striking him with clench
ed fists full in the ribs. The unfortunate
la doubled up and was dragged to the
rear little beyond, where the corporal
of another squad was slowly and delib-
erately dressing line by savagely kick
ing the legs and stamping his irOn-shod
heel on the toes of the poor recruits.
The thud of the blows and kicks, and
the groans and cries of the less hardy of
the unfortunate youths, were horrible to
hear. All this took place in the pres
ence of a superior officer.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-07-07
An Awkward Mistake.

A clubman relates at his own expense
the following Renaissance of his visit
to London last summer. Wishing to
take advantage of the alleged cheapness
of clothing in London, he carried with
him no more than he actually needed
for the voyage, and on his arrival posted
up to London in his steamer dress, to
find an important dinner engagement
awaiting him, only q few days off. 1t
was AZ extremely hot day ard he was
tired, but he went ut once to the estab-
lishment of tailor who had been rec
commended, and asked to see the pro-
prietOr, Mr.. X. That gentleman ap-
peared, and the following conversation
took place:
"You are Mr.. x" tho American
asked.
eyes, " was the laconic reply.
'We1, continued the American; 81
met your customer Mr. A., on the steam
er I've just landed from, and he adj
vised me to come and see you before
looking anywhere else"
q But really, my man." the tailor
said, looking the dusty, travels tanned
visitor over from head to foot. 81 am
awfully sorry not to oblige Mr.. A., don't
you know, but really we don't need any
more help at present"
The American is neither vain nor
lacking in sense of the ludicrous, so that
instead of becoming MORALLY offended,
as many might have done, he simply
laughed and explained that he wanted
some work done himself, and on this
footing he was Mt once treated with
consideration designed TO atone for SO
awkward mistake.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-07-07
A DAY In OLD CAMBRIDGE.
NOTES OF A VISIT BY REV.
CHARLES T.. THWING.
The English College AccOmmoda-
lions Compared to Ours.

Two hours ride on a cool day brought us
from London to Cambridge on the Cam.
Cambridge on the Cam seems to be more COM
pIetcly university town than Cambridge on
the Charles. If the American city has impor-
tant interests other than it's college, the Eng
lish town seems TO exist chiefly for the sake of
It's great and ancient university. The halls of
the colleges are masscd together near the CEN
ter, and cover q considerable section of the
town. In several respects they differ from our
college buildings. They are built, like so many
English mansions of the Tudor period, four
square, inclosing a court, and they are al
surrounded by walls, the entrance being
through gates iealously guarded by porter.
These gates are locked between ten at night
and six in the morning, and the penalties of
collegiate discipline are visited upon the hap
less wauderer who finds himself gated at
five minutes after ten o'clock. The dOrmito-
RIGS arc not unlike those with which American
college youth are painfully familiar. The
newer arc more elegant than the older, but in
the new dormitOry of st. Johns saw no rooms
more pleasant or convenient than have seen
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-07-07

THE oUTGRoWTH OF A VAST EXPERIENCE.

HI pregnancy, Favoritc Prescription"
is n "mOthCrs cordial relieving nausea,
weakness of stomach and other distressing
symptoms common to that condition II
its use is kept up in the latter months of
CESSATION, ii SO prepares the system for de-
livery rs to greatly lessen, and many times
almost entirely do away with the suffCrings
of that trying ordeal.
"EavoTitC Prescriptions, when taken
in connection with the use of DR. picrcp's
Golden Medical Discovery, and small laNa-
tive doses of DIR. Picrcc's Purgative Pellets
little Liver Pills, cures Liver. Kidney and
Bladder diseases. Their combined use also
removes blood tnints, and aholishcs cam
cerous and scroiulous humUrs from the
system.
"FavOritc Prescription is tho only
medicine for women sold by drurrists
under positive guarantee. from the
manufacturers, that it will give satisTnc-
ton in every case, or money will he re-
funded. This guarantee has been printed
on the hottle-wrappCr, and faithfully car
RED out Tor many years. Large bottles
600 doses Sl.OO, or six bottles for
sS Send ten cents in stamps for Dr
Plerce's large, illustrated Treatise 1G0
pagcs) on Diseases of Women.
/. 6G3 Main SfYpps NRUrR1xrAU NJ -
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-07-07
The Farmers Modest Feat.

Some genius has calculated how far
farmer has to walk to put in and attend
to forty acres of corn. The result given
is, ploughing $50 miles, narrowing be
fore planting so, after cultivating 800,
total 700 miles. This is not a bad esti-
mate if done in the old way, but the
sulky pillow and new devices for seeding
now let him ride most of the distance.
And yet the farmer never set up as a
walkist. He did not exhibit his abilities
in that line by a 100 or 1000 miles
tramp on n bet, nor did he have a hacker
provided with refreshments, or to grease
the bEsters on his feet, or a band of
music, or chance for gate money. He
went all alone over rough but soft soil,
yielding at every step, wholly unlike a
hard, smooth road, kept up regular time
fought insects and birds and other dep
redators, replanted where hill failed,
and finally wound up by harvesting,
husklng and storing, happy indeed if
cattle qua not destroy II part, or he was
not III the end Swindled out of the whole.
He did not come in for an atom of glory.
No one thought the feat uncommon. He
wore hickory shirt and overall, instead
OF n club dress of gUady colors with
stunning ne;tu-Seaf. How many base
ball players do as much work for as little
profit, or could be persuaded to such eff
forts, when it is no glory to VIM Yet
the farmer is happiest of the lot. He
reaps good health, strong bodily powers
and solid Independence. The worlds
real heroes in peace are on the farm.
and fOrty-acre tract is not very large
one either. Double the figures above
will come nearer showing what he really
accOmplishes.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-07-07

A BIRMINGHAM, England, paper says
that a novel experiment was tried there
lately with the telephone. A letter was
received by Messrs. Rogers q Priestly,
musical caterers in that town, asking
them to send an organ to suit piano
forte to II room at Moseley, where a con-
cert was to take place that night. The
firm We're totally at loss to know the
precise tone of the Piano, and conse-
qucntly despaired of being able to COM
ply with the demand i'll time. However,
much to their surprise, they found that
they could communicate with the people
at Moseley through the telephone.
Forthwith the firm asked that one of
the notes of the piano should be struck.
When this was done the sound could be
heard in Colmore Row, and by reducing
the pitch pipe the tones of both instru-
monts were made to correspond.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-07-07
SAVED HIS BOOTS.
A Farmer Gets Caught Under /,
Stone and Shows His Mean ness.

"Down near Sheridan, ILL.,, the other
day." said commercial traveller to a
representative of the Chicago Herald,
al heard story about farmer living
in that neighbOrhood. He is a man of
about fifty years, and worth about S75.-
900 clear and easy. Last week he was
out ploughing, and coming across q big
stone which had bothered him a good
deal in past years concluded to get it
ont of the way. Finding it too large to
move all by himelf, and being too stingy
to hire help, he st rted in digging big
hole right beside the stone, intending to
tumble the dOrnick into it and thus get
rid of the nuisance. This was shrewd
plan but it didn't work very we'll
just as the farmer had got the hole
about dug and as he was picking away
under the edge of the stone to make it
roll in easier when he got ready to push
it, the internal rock slid into the hole
all by itself and nailed the farmer fast.
He was badly hurt, both of his legs
being crushed, and he was compelled to
remain in that position, suffering ter
ribly, for several hours. Finally a
man passing along the highway heard
the injured mans cries and rushed to his
assistance. Beingunable to get him out
alone he hastened after help, and in
half an hour three or four men were
gathered about the sufferer.
CATER sizing up the stone and not
ing the difficulty of removing it they came
to the conclusion that the only way to
get him out was to loosen the dirt
little behind him aud then pull him ont
by main force. They tried this but
found the task harder one than they
had bargained for. The big stone was
resting on the farmers cowhide boots,
and holding him so fast that they
couldn't pull him out.
"'Wen have to cut your boots off,
said the men, and then we'll get you
out i'll no time
"'For Gods sake, replied the farmer,
don't cut those boots. l only bought
'em last week and paid q dollar and
half for EN-. Don't cUt my boots.
"Well they didn't cut his boots, but
sent for some laborers, n pair Of horses,
chains, timbers, end shovels, and by
working two hours managed to save the
mans life. The bill which the poor
farmer had TO pay, greatly to his dis
gust, was S21. 80. But nc saved his boots.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-07-07
The Social Problem.

President SeeIye, of Amherst College,
preached the baccalaureate sermon, taxing for
his subject understanding of the Times. "
He showed the mistakes to which men are liza
BILE because of their failure to understand
their times, and then by tracing past events
and noting their law of steady movement he
deduced the position of the present time and
the social problem before the American peo'
pie. No science, he said, can be a remedy for
the disturbed condition of the society, because
science is only knowledge, and knowledge is
not the sufficient motive to action Men act
according to their sentiments, and the only
sentiment which can inspire men to loving
fellowship with one another and give the in
SEPARATION through which the social promblen
can he solved is religion.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-07-07

Director-General Jacquier, Cashier Chauvert
and Secretary Rebeval, of the Panama Canal
Company, arrived on the Pacific Mail steam
ship City of Para, direct from the isthmus
The Secretary stated that work on the canal
was paralyzed owing to a lack of funds, and
the officers were going to France to consult
with De Lcsseps and the stockholders. Their
present intention il to return to the isthmus
in four or five months. Unless more money is
forthcoming the work must be abandoned with
in n few months
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-07-07

The two new ferry steamboats, now in course
of cons ruction by the Columbia Iron Works
at Baltimore will be completed by November
next for use be wccn New York and Staten
Island. a stipulation in the contract requires
n speed of nineteen miles an hour, and it is
calculated that the trip will be made i'll fifteen
minutes. Each steamboat is to have triple
open decks and the most improved compound
engines. The steamboats, arc to cost S4500 600.
1t will be necessary to reconstruct and length
en- the present docks and slips at each land
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-07-07
Kissed Us All Around.

Some little time ago young lady
who had been teaching CT IS OF halt
grown girls il the sunday school of DIR.
BIS church, brooklyn, was called away
from the city. rendering It necessary to
fill her place.
The superintendent, after looking
over his available material for teachers,
decided to request one of the young
gentlemen of the congregation to take
the class.
1t so happened that the young man
upon whom fell the superintendent S
choice was exceedingly bashfnl - SO
much so, il fact, that he insisted upon
the superintendent :;oing and presenting
him to the class. Accordingly the two
gentlemen appeared OF. the little plat
form, and the superintendent began
"Young ladies, Nisi. to introduce to
you Mr.. c., who WI in future be your
teacher. would like to have you tell
him what your former Teacher did, SO
that he can go light on in the same
way"
immediately dcmuro miss of four
teen years arose ard sail: "'Thc first
thing our teacher dis, was to kiss Us all
around. "--.lmcrirGa Na9d7tast.
IJE is ,.irh ~ i,o 1tn. a frOCIlV EtnIO Of
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-07-07
II stonfahed the Public

To hear of the resignation Of DR.. Pierce as q
Congressman to devote himself solely 10 his
labols as physician. 1t was cause his true
constituents were ok and afflicted every
NhHre. They will find DR.. Picrce's "Golde
n edcal Discovery" q benefcent use of his
scientific knowledge in their behalf. Con
stump ion: bronchitis, cough. heart d 'soase,
fever and ague, Intermittent fever, drop ",
neuralgia, gottro or tn cl neck, AID all dis
eases of the blood, are curci b. this world re
Howned medicine. by drugs st<
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-07-07

WoMAN's choicest need is a MASTER
not petty despot, but self-poised,
considerate leader, who moves with con-
fdent tread and who is always alert to
prevent collisions at life's crossings,
whether the bell rings or not.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-07-07

declare to you, Old Prudence, and to you,
Young Ardor, there is no joy, no virtue; no
beauty, no boon between the dawn and the de-
cline of life above which Love does not tower
majestic and supreme. 1t is the most rational
and the most imperious need of humannature
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-07-07

cures nausea, weakness of stomach, indi-
gcstion, blOatng and quotations Of gas.
As soothing and strengthening
nervine, FayOritc Prescription is un,
eoualled and is invaluable in allaying and
slibduing nervous cxcitability, irritability,
exhaustion, prOstration, hysterla, spaSlns
and other distressing, nervous symptoms
commonly attendant, upon functional and
organic disease of the womb. 1t induces
refreshing sleep and relieves mental anX-
iCty and dependency.
DIR. Pierce's EaVOrite Prescription
is n legitimate medicine. carefully
compounded by an experienced and skilltul
physician, and adapted to woman's delicate
organization. 1t is purely vegetable in its
composition and perfectly harmless in its
"FavOrite Prescription is a posi-
tive euro for the most complicated and
obstinate cases of lcucorrhCa, or whites"
excessive flowing at monthly periods, pain
full menstruation, unnatural supprcssions,
prOlapsus or falling of the womb, weak
back, female weakness" antCvcrsiOn, re-
troversion, bearinG-dOwn sensations, chrOn-
ic congestion, inflammation and liberation
of the womb, inflammation, pain and ten
dcrncss in ovaries, accompanied with in
tcrnal heat"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-07-07

What man ever was enough the egotist to
use the pronoun he for the noun Beauty /
wonder if that is not mans most expressive
and delicate compliment to woman? Faith,
she is the only living thing that could idealize
oranmorI
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-07-07
"SaY. why is eycrything

ElIII' T at Sizes OF NJ SeVbDb;|
Probably, my de "rvous sister, because
you are suffering from some of the seases pc
Guitar to your sex. You have n dragging
down" feeiiny, the backache, you are deb T.
tt'cd, you have pains of various kind. Take
DR.. X. V. Picrce's "Fav,r,te Prescript on" and
be cured. Price reduced 10 one dollar B!
dru gist3
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-07-07

Col. f. C. Walker, THO NJ Editor o. the
spirit of thu Times" n. y, and Genl Rufus
ingalls,, QGaricrna~ter General, L. :. A, both
e. ommcnd st. Jacobs OIL as without equal
a, a horse remedy" rice fifty cents.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-07-07

"GoD helps those who help them
selves" Does that promise extend TO
the fellow who helped himself to our
umbrella the other night2
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-07-07

The treatment of many thousands of cases
of those chronic weaknesses and distressing
ailments peculiar to females Mt the 1nvalids'
Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y,
has afforded vast experience in nicely
adapting and thoroughly testing remedies
for the cure of wOman's peculiar malades.
DIR. PierCe's EaVoritc Prescription
is the outgrowth, or result, Of this great
and valuable experience. Thousands of
testimonials. received from patients and
from physicians who have tested it in the
more aggravated and obstinate cases which
had baificd their skill, prove it to be the
most wonderful remedy ever devised for
the relief and cure of suffering women. 1t
is not recommended rs cure-alI," but
rs n most perfect Specific for woman's
peculiar ailments.
AS a powerful, inyigorating tonic,
II impnrtS strength to the whole system,
and to tho uterus, or womb and its APP
pcndages, in particular. For ovcrworl1ed,
"wOrn-Out." -" rundown" dcbilratcd teach
crs, milliners- drrSSmakrrS, seamstresses,
"shop-girls," hOus2kccperB, nursing moth
crs, and fcnblc women generally, DR.
Picrcc's FavOritc Prescription is the great
est earthly boon, being uncQuallcd as an
appctizing cordial and restorative tonic. II
promotes digestion aad assimilation of food.
Address. WORLDS DESP
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-07-07

ARA SoULE of Grant, Mimi, noticed
that one of his favorite hens had ceased
laying eggs, but was growing remarkably
large. Finally, after attaining an aston
1shlng size, the hen died, and Mr.. Soule
was curious enough to hold post-mor-
TEN examination. He cut the fowl open
and was somewhat astonished when four
well-developed spring chickens popped
out and began strutting around the
barnyard. He supposed that some
trouble with the hens organization had
stopped the egress of the eggs and that
the natural heat of her body incubated
the IAlicken germs.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-07-07
Men may come and men may go,
DIT L r.tnr- L., fD,.n.-n-.

1t is fitting that in the tcrcentennial wear of
the foundation of the Puritan college of John
Harvard his statue should have been raised in
the now college which bears his NAME and
window should be erected to his memory in
the college of which he was graduate.
Emanuel is now among the small colleges of
Cambridge. While Trinity has more than
six hundred and st. Johns about five hun
dred students, it has only ninety. But the debt
of gratitude which the cause of learning in the
United States owes to it can never become in
significant. Sir Walter Mildmay's acorn has
grown other acorns which have sproutcd and
become oaks in soil and under skies of which
he only dreamed.
An Ong these memorabilia l should not neg
lect to include a word as to the clubhouse of
the famous Cambridge Union. Large, equipped
with various rooms for reading, writing, eat
ing, and with its hail for debates it is the CEN
ter of the social life Of the University. 1t
docs not, however, represent a collegiate type
which needs fostering in onr American nstitu-
tions. Nor should L omit to speak of the
pleasure which ours i'll inspecting the new
wOman's college, GirtOn. Such an impression
of absolute utility and of intellectual work one
is seldom permitted to receive in walking
through the library and recitation rooms of n
college. 1t is evident that at Girton, as at
Vassar and Smith and Wellesley, the women
who go to college go with purpose Chris
tan Union,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-07-07

Tie Champion Oarsman of America, John
r, ener- writes: II have found ST. Jacobs Oh
of measurable value" All Champion oars
men use it. Sold BIZ Druggists ant Dealers.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-07-07

How odd a truth it is that no man is happy
with the woman he loves until he has become
chcerfully Indifferent to her:
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-07-07

A small rattlesnake was recently found in a
mail pouch when it was unlocked at Morrows
Station, near Forsyth, Ga. How it got there
is mystery.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-07-07

Happiness is not difficult crop to gather.
The real difficulty is, we are impatient of the
ordinary yield. We want to raise enough in
one season to last lifetime
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-07-07

DIR. WALToN's CURE FOR PILES is guaran-
teed to cure the worst case of piles. Price p
cents. At druggists, or mailed [stamps taken]
by the
WALTON REMEDY Co., CLEVELAND. Ono.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-07-07

"RoYAL GLUE" mends anything! Broken
China, Glass, Wood. Free Walls at Drugs & Gro.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-07-07

Pierce's "Plcas1nt Purgativo Pel'ot," are
perfect prsventives o. constipation. lnclosed
in glass bottles, always fresh. By all drug
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-07-07

Harvard died at CharlestOwn, Sept. 20, 1888.
A monument was erected to his memory by
gra duates of the University of Cambridge on
the Goth Sept, A. D. 1921 Harvard's name
is tendcrly cherished in his alma mater. A
memorial window in its chapel contains his
portrait, in which he is represented in the
worthy company of Augustine, Anselm, and
other prOpagators of the faith. He stands on
the shore of a sea with a scroll in hand. Be
hind him are a ship nearing land and asmonu-
meEt. The face suggests the face of Milton
which is ordinarily seen. The coloring is
strong and harmonious, and the action and
vigor of the piece are admirable. Harvard's
rooms at Emanuel are still used by students;
unlike the brook, the dormitory room can
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-07-07
piles Cnred fnr 25 Gent,

The most wonderful thing about shad is
how the meat ever got in between the bones.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-07-07

Do good by stealth and blush to find
it fame.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-07-07

If afflicted with sore eyes use DIR. Isaac Thomp
sons Eye water. Druggists sell at 25c per bottle
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-07-07

THE best cough medicine Is Piso's Cure for
Consumption. Sold everywhere. 25c.
FoR SPECIAL RATES ter advertising in this paper
apply to the publisher Of the paper. D2O
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-07-07

WHAT is there so excellent as the
spectacle of an old man who believes in
his fellow men2
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-07-07

He who keeps knowing eye on the
Past is seldom misled by the Present.